About Irene Promodh

Irene Promodh is a PhD student in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on mobile forms of Christianity across the Indian Ocean, particularly among migrant communities circulating between their places of work in the Persian Gulf and their home societies in South India. She is especially interested in questions of caste, denominational difference, and religious conversion among diasporic groups in the Indian Ocean world. She has also worked on the sonic cultures of the Indian Ocean and the migrant media practices of South Indians living in the Persian Gulf. Her work has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and City & Society, with a forthcoming article on pandemic theologies in the Journal of Arabian Studies.

Irene Promodh is a PhD student in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

NBN Episodes hosted by Irene:

Nissim Mannathukkaren, "Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South India" (Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2021)

October 12, 2022

Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory

Nissim Mannathukkaren
Hosted by Irene Promodh

Nissim Mannathukkaren's book Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South India (Routledge Chapman & Hall, 2021) is a thema…

Guangtian Ha, "The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China" (Columbia UP, 2021)

May 9, 2022

The Sound of Salvation

Guangtian Ha
Hosted by Irene Promodh

The Jahriyya Sufis—a primarily Sinophone order of Naqshbandiyya Sufism in northwestern China—inhabit a unique religious soundscape. The hallmark of th…

Andrea Wright, "Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil" (Stanford UP,  2021)

February 23, 2022

Between Dreams and Ghosts

Andrea Wright
Hosted by Irene Promodh

More than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal …

Yonatan Gez et al., "Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

January 11, 2022

Butinage

Yonatan N. Gez, Yvan Droz, Jeanne Rey, and Edio Soares
Hosted by Irene Promodh

Based on comparative ethnographic research in four countries and three continents, Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility (U Toronto Press, 2021) exp…

Maria Jose de Abreu, "The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil" (Duke UP, 2021)

November 9, 2021

The Charismatic Gymnasium

Maria Jose de Abreu
Hosted by Irene Promodh

In The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil (Duke University Press, 2021), Maria José de Abreu examin…

Mirjam Lücking, "Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims" (SAPP, 2021)

October 4, 2021

Indonesians and Their Arab World

Mirjam Lücking
Hosted by Irene Promodh

Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims (Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2021) teases out the c…